Inner Higher Calling

(Continuation of previous post)

In order to cancel out false messages which prevent us from hearing our true calling, we have to expose ourselves to inverted sounds that neutralize the lies.

We tend to surround ourselves with people who make us feel good about our choices. If we desire to stay stagnant, we find friends who are also apathetic, allowing us to conform to the status quo. If we long to indulge our baser instincts, we find peers who will pull us down further into the muck with them. Sometimes, we even follow others up the wrong hill. We mistakenly climb up this mound or that, imagining that we shall find ultimate happiness at the top. Many of us have clambered up the well-worn trails of Status Hill, Wealth Ridge, Ambition Cliff, Power Bluff, and Fame Slope—only to find that hiking up these foothills did not bring us satisfaction. Yet, each experience helps us grow stronger and wiser.

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” (Yeats)

The process of growth is what brings us satisfaction, not the accomplishment of any goal. Yet, if we want to grow, we search out mentors who are ahead of us on the Right Path, who encourage us to keep climbing higher—to be better versions of our current self. As we leave the valley where the herds graze mindlessly—as we climb up the Mountain of Truth—the cacophony of false messages gets fainter. We are able to hear our higher calling. As we climb, we grow stronger and more determined.